When I Love You So Little

From the writings of Thomas Reade: Adorable Jesus! I acknowledge my vileness, my worthlessness, my ingratitude. With shame and confusion of face I look up unto you, O bleeding Lamb, for having slighted your goodness, and your loving kindness towards me. Take away this earthliness from my mind; this coldness from my heart; this insensibility [...]

Thomas Sowell On Class Warfare

Quoting Thomas Sowell: “However, with charity as with everything else, it cannot simply be assumed that more is always better. A ‘safety net’ can easily become a hammock. ‘Social justice’ can easily become class warfare that polarizes a nation, while leading those at the bottom into the blind alley of resentments, no matter how many [...]

Charles Spurgeon On The New Year

Has 2011 been a disappointment to you? Perhaps there are great things awaiting you with the arrival of the New Year, 2012. There is no doubt in my mind that God has plans to use you and me. Therefore, pray for His blessings and that you might know His Ways. Charles Spurgeon continues on this [...]

Facing A New Year

From the desk of A.W. Tozer: I do not advise that we end the year on a somber note. The march, not the dirge, has ever been the music of Christianity. If we are good students in the school of life, there is much that the years have to teach us. But the Christian is [...]

A Magnificent Document Ignored

Quoting columnist Larry Elder: “Little by little, inch by inch, drop by drop, governments both in America and in Europe began taking more and more from people, diminishing the incentive of those on both sides of the transaction — the taker and the giver. In America, nearly half of wage earners pay not one single [...]

The Universal Need

Christians understand that human nature is in the grip of sin. We learn in the Bible that “the carnal mind is enmity against God.” (Romans. 8:7). Man is a sinner who must be born again. We are all plagued with guilt which can only be removed by salvation. Claude Duval Cole explains why: In the [...]

True Christians Prize Christ

In the words of Thomas Watson: We cannot prize Christ at too high a rate. We may prize other things above their value. That is our sin. We commonly overrate the creature; we think there is more in it than there is; therefore God withers our gourd, because we over-prize it. But we cannot raise [...]

The Liberties We’ve Lost

From the desk of economist Walter E. Williams: “What laws are we morally obligated to obey? Help with the answer can be found in ‘Economic Liberty and the Constitution,’ a 66-page pamphlet by Jacob G. Hornberger, founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation. Hornberger offers a hypothetical whereby Congress enacts a compulsory church [...]

Hope For Sick Hearts

[H]aving the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints. . . . (Ephesians 1:18 ESV) [R]emember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and [...]

Aliens In Today’s Western World

Quoting Dinesh D’Souza: The effort by secularists to teach our children hostility to religion, and specifically to Christianity, is especially strange considering that Western civilization was built by Christianity. Don’t take my word for it. This, from the world’s leading social theorist, Jurgen Habermas: Christianity and nothing else is the ultimate foundation of liberty, conscience, [...]

Washington And The Hand of Providence

  George Washington wrote this in a letter to Thomas Nelson August 20, 1778: The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.

Living Godly Lives In This Present Age

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us [...]

The New Year Begins

In the words of George Hodges: The year begins; and all its pages are as blank… Let us begin it with high resolution; then let us take all its limitations, all its hindrances, its disappointments, its narrow and common-place conditions, and meet them as the Master did in Nazareth, with patience, with obedience, putting ourselves [...]

Alexis de Tocqueville On Tyranny

From the writings of French historian Alexis de Tocqueville: “[Tyrannical] power is absolute, minute, regular, provident and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content [...]

Growth In The Grace And Knowledge Of God

There are many people who think that if they attend church occasionally, read the Bible and declare they believe it from the first book to the last, that they are surely growing in Christian grace. Yet, we must be careful here because even demons have knowledge of these things and certainly are not growing in [...]

Thoughts On Time And The New Year

From the desk of Steven B. Cloud: Though even thinking on the subject of time may prove discomforting, it is not a bad idea—especially at the beginning of a new year. As we look into 2012, we look at a block of time. We see 12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days, 8,760 hours, 525,600 minutes, [...]

Ronald Reagan: Inflation Is A Tax

In the words of Ronald Reagan “When a business or an individual spends more than it makes, it goes bankrupt. When government does it, it sends you the bill. And when government does it for 40 years, the bill comes in two ways: higher taxes and inflation. Make no mistake about it, inflation is a [...]

When Righteous Acts Are Filthy

Many flatter themselves that their works are essential to the cause of Christ. However, until such a time when we have learned to serve God according to His Word, our own works are filthy in the sight of God. John Calvin explains below why this is so: Unto the pure all things are pure; but [...]

Benjamin Franklin On Christmas

Quoting Benjamin Franklin in Poor Richards Almanac, 1743: “How many observe Christ’s birth-day! How few, his precepts! O! ’tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments.”

God Comes To Bethlehem

The first Christmas morning may be hard for us to imagine in our 21st century culture. It does deserve our attention, however, because it is a miraculous day. It is the day that God entered our world. Leonard J. Vander Zee approaches this event from the perspective of the Apostle John in the following excerpts [...]

A Christmas Eve Prayer

A prayer by Rev. Richard J. Fairchild: Eternal God, this holy night is radiant with the brilliance of your one true light. May that light illuminate our hearts and shine in our words and deeds. May the hope, the peace, the joy, and the love represented by the birth in Bethlehem this night fill our [...]

The Chief Object Of Our Love

From the desk of John Fawcett: Christian! Jesus is your Savior, your Friend, and your Portion! You are guilty—His blood cleanses from all sin. You are miserable—He is rich in mercy. You are helpless—He is mighty to save. You are impoverished—His riches are unsearchable. His treasures of grace are inexhaustible! There is an inexhaustible fullness [...]

Spurgeon On The Song Of Angels

From the sermons of Charles H. Spurgeon: And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!” (Luke 2:13-14 ESV) It is wrong to worship angels; but it is appropriate to [...]

Focus On The Christ Of Christmas

From the desk of John MacArthur: “There is no connection between the worship of idols and the use of Christmas trees. We should not be anxious about baseless arguments against Christmas decorations. Rather, we should be focused on the Christ of Christmas and giving all diligence to remembering the real reason for the season.”

John Adams On Governing A People Unbridled By Religion

  John Adams addressed the First Brigade of the Third Division of the Militia of Massachusetts on October 11, 1798 and said: We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a [...]